Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2021

A volunteer resource manager at another human service nonprofit that we talked with noted the challenge that comes with the decision to suddenly embrace information and communication technologies. It’s not equitable and we can’t provide the resources that they need.”. English as a second language.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

This will be an honest and authentic conversation about the many obstacles confronted by under-resourced individuals and organizations striving to help drive social change. But a series of breakthroughs—including several over just the last decade—have catapulted AI to the forefront of our public consciousness.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 29, 2023

Hero language: When you tell a donor that your nonprofit wouldn’t exist without them, you are speaking the truth. Hero languages reinforces the idea that they made the right choice and increases the possibility that they will give again. But the rules are a bit different around IRS language. So why be shy about saying it?

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 16, 2022

As with all Asks, center your language around the things you’ll be able to do with the donor’s money – like the lives they’ll be able to change. Without them, young people on our waitlist continue to face the challenges that low levels of literacy create in their lives. Very good question. Monthly donors make this work possible!

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Neon CRM

JUNE 16, 2023

Personalize the ask In a study of email fundraising campaigns, we found that the emails with the highest engagement rates addressed the recipients by name and used “you” language, speaking directly to the recipient. Of course, these methods will all depend on your nonprofit’s specific donor base and your resources.

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NTEN

AUGUST 5, 2014

For example, consider creating a strategy for segmenting your emails and testing, this is a great resource from Kivi Leroux Miller. This is especially relevant if you''re working with audiences around the world that communicate in multiple languages, or are illiterate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

Note from Beth: During my trip to India in February, I was introduced to a nonprofit children's book publisher in India, Pratham Books. “It was set up to fill a gap in the market for good quality, reasonably priced children’s books in a variety of Indian languages. Its] mission is to make books affordable for every child in India.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

As someone who has been a trainer for all these years, one of the things we're trained to do is "read the room." You watch for body language to indicate the level of engagement and whether or not people agree or disagree and encourage them to participate. So, if you're moderating a panel, think of yourself as a giant insect!

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Tech Soup

MAY 31, 2013

The Center was established in 2007 by the Vietnam Scientific Association for Development of Talents, Human Resources. In addition to providing direct support to local nonprofits, LIN also serves as a vehicle through which donors can effectively contribute their knowledge, energy, and resources to support these nonprofits.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

There was also an associated effort called the Trusted Intermediary Global Accessible Resources (TIGAR) project, to ease the exchange of accessible book files between libraries for the blind and print disabled. The view of the World Blind Union was that the rightsholders (i.e., The question of licensing pretty much got punted down the road.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

is a thin client or shared resource computing. ARC already has a training lab there that provides lifelong learning opportunities for older adults, many of whom speak languages other than English. It will also be used for digital literacy classes, and perhaps for ESL classes. Windows MultiPoint Server.

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Candid

JANUARY 13, 2023

Chances are, even if you have, that’s not your actual title (although we recognize some job descriptions do use this language). When communicating about literacy, we should always strive to avoid the term “illiterate.” More often than not, people who are described as “illiterate” likely have a low level of literacy. Illiterate.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Specifically the 1989 flame-red Ferrarri Trapper Keeper I walked into fourth grade with. --> While TechSoup may not have Trapper Keepers, we have tons of free and donated resources to keep any busy adult up to speed. Learning Resources from TechSoup. Learn to Manage Your Organization with SNPO's Educational Resources.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 30, 2011

The software applications WordQ + SpeakQ provide writing assistance and speech recognition help for people with disabilities, new language learners, and those who are learning literacy. There are statewide programs like Texas Center for the Visually Challenged and Assistive Technology Resource Centers of Hawaii.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

Create a training program to ensure social media literacy. As you choose platforms and develop trainings, consider language needs, cultural norms, currency conversions and beyond. In case you missed this freezing cold yet informative day, here are my favorite key points from each session.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Wikipedia was a popular resource and established as a citizen-driven information source. Problems were that many survivors had no internet access, let alone electrical power, let alone computers or even computer literacy. What’s so important or interesting about this? Social Media in Disaster Response. http ://www.noula.ht/index.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 12, 2008

How do increase internet literacy with communities? What type of language should i use? What are some resources if you don't understand social networking? What are some resources to help your constituents? If there is what should it be? What technologies do you need to encourage user-generated content on video?

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 14, 2009

When you speak in the language of the institutional mission, executives will understand you better and be attentive to the new connections you draw from the mission to proposed projects. There are several good resources on evaluating participation. If your institution says it is bold and fearless, how do your programs support that?

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 4, 2022

If you see a story in the national news that is relevant to your work in the local community, that can be a great time to be a resource to your local media, offering them a local story. Local literacy program supporting students in Haiti raises record-breaking funds, moves 24 students off waiting list. Avoid exclamation points.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

I will be moving at a nice clip and I will be, at the end of the webinar, sharing some free resources. Donors and community members aren’t looking for you to be the best, they want to see that you are the best steward of resources. And we partner with them for those services, and our energy and resources are focused on the gaps.”

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The type of events that will work best for your nonprofit will depend on three major factors: Your organization’s mission, your available resources, and your supporter’s preferences. Classes Nonprofit organizations often offer classes that cover a wide array of topics, from literacy and language skills to financial literacy and job training.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 10, 2006

I was at that time working at a wonderful organization called Streetside Stories , which is a literacy arts organization with programming in various Title 1 middle schools in San Francisco. What are some resources you can recommend to people who are interested in this kind of work, or your favorite book?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2009

I think this is connected to what Rheingold's Attention Literacy piece, but I have go back and read it again. The cloud isn’t formally organized, pools its information resources, and has no center of power. Authority in the cloud is drawn from dedication, or, to use rather more precise language, love.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2008

KR: The Global Fund for Women has an extraordinary commitment to keeping our doors open so that as many organizations working to advance women's human rights internationally can really gain access to resources that they so desperately need. Those are some of the ways in which we try to make those decisions.

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